From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Need Old DOS Program to Run on WIN95
Date: 7 Oct 1997 23:27:38 GMT
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Jeffrey Furlong <jfurlong AT telephone-headset DOT com> wrote:

> BTW. Why have this newsgroup? Shouldn't everybody just read their 
> documentation?

Yes. But, of course, not everything is discussed in the documentation. In
your case it was. RTFM.

> Also: GEOS is another operating system.

Clearly it belongs nowhere near this group, since this is comp.os.msdos.djgpp.
Note the 'os.msdos' part, which clearly indicates that the topic is related
to the MS-DOS operating system, and no other.

> Also: I posted to this newsgroup because I earlier had done a Deju search
> for newsgroups that had previously posted articles relevant to my 
> situation. 

I fail to see how an operating system called GEOS is relevant to an MS-DOS
port of the GNU development suite.

> I am obviously *way over your head here......

That was uncalled for.

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